Improvement in card-holders



Patented April 30, 1872.

`Bl BROWER. Card-Holder PATENT OFFICE.

BLOOMFIELD BROWER, OF NEW YORK, N.' Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARD-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,259, dated April 30, 1872.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Beit known that I, BLOOMFIELD BROWER, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Card- Oase,77 of which the following is a specification: The nature of my invention consists in the construction ot' -a case for holding addresscards or similar articles with movable sides,

to adapt the same for any size of cards or other goods.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure I represents a front view ot' my card-case embodying my invention. Fig. II is a section of the same at the line a a, Fig. I. The other figures will be referred to in the following specication, being a front view and section of a modification.

Similar letters represent similar parts.

A is a plate, forming the back ot' the case, having a hole near the top to hang the same upon a nail, or a suitable base-plate may be arranged at the bottom to stand the same upon a table, if desired. U is an angle-piece, screwed near the bottom to the plate A, or the same may be cast in one piece with said plate A. The upper tlange of this angle-piece C forms the bottom for the card-case. B B are the side frames for the case. These fra-mes 'have projecting pieces on the back passing through the plate A, and by which these frames may be fixed in any desired position from each other, according to the length of the card to be placed between them. To the frame B flat projections m m are made, having large heads m at their ends. These projectionsfm, pass through the plate A, and work in long slots E provided with suitable notches or recesses n, in which latter these projections m are made to it, and are held fast. The heads a' are made sufficiently large not to pass through the slots E, and prevent the frames B from falling out.

To make the case either longer or shorter the frame B is lifted up, so that the projections m come out of the notches or recesses n, when said frame can be moved into any other of the notches n, as may be desired.

Instead of providing the projections m with heads a' at the back of the frame B, to iit into notches n' in the slots E, as above described, the same may be arranged, as shown, on the frame B', where a screw-thread is cut at the end of the projections w, (see Fig. IL) provided with a large nut, c, to fasten said frames B in any desired position. The slots D in this arrangement may be iliade perfectly straight, as shown in Fig. I.

Instead of constructing the case as above described, the same may be made as shown in Figs. III and IV, where Fig. III is a front view, and Fig. IV a section at the line z z. The back plate A in this case is provided with a groove, G, at or near the lower part, and the frames B B have bottom plates J projecting a little over their side or end plates, which said projecting part works in this groove G. This groove Gr forms a guide for the lower part of the frames B, and enables to dispense with 011e ot' the projections on the back of each frame. The bottom plate J on the frames B forms an equivalent for the angle-piece C, and supports the cards at both ends, leaving only a small space in the center unsupported.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement ofthe movable side pieces B, in combination with the back-plate A and angle piece C or its equivalent, constructed substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

BLOOMFIELD BROWER.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. RoEDEn, A. C. CRoNDAL. 

